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Michelle Keeley-Adamson - Historian & Writer. (She/Her)

When I'm not haunting the necropolis you can find me reading, writing, drawing or listening to Vincent Price radio plays.

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · Nov 14
Hey! I'm Shell. I research & write about the reception of ancient Egypt, graveyards, Bonomi Jr & spooky stuff.

On Wednesday nights I drink tea, write weird radio & stage scripts and type up my stash of mediocre short stories.

liverpoolgraves.wordpress.com

#historian #writer #taphophile
A woman with dark hair in a long purple coat and reddish dress pointing at a sign for the Dead House Steps in Tenby A copy of Haunted Magazine which features the profile of a woman with a skeleton face. The issue is hunger 43 and is titled Women in the Paranormal A woman with dark hair and red lipstick holding a copy for The Feminine Macabre : woman's journal of all things strange and unusual. The cover is a mix of yellows and browns, with flowers surrounding a skull.
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adamhulse.bsky.social
What an honour to blurb such a terrific book. Keep an eye out for it and check out @danhowarth20.bsky.social if you haven't already. A truly gifted writer. #Booksky
October 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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mjpcuervo.bsky.social
Vincent Price advertising monster-shaped vitamins.
Vincent price says "Come a little closer, madam-I want to save you 25€ on Monster Vitamins" Kids love Monster" Vitamins. They come in 7 monstrous shapes and colors. And they taste terrific. Even more important, Monsters contain 10 essential vitamins. Children should get vitamins by eating right, but when they don't, Monster Vitamins and Monster Vitamins Plus Iron sure help.
October 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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helleborezine.bsky.social
The folkloric belief that reflections, portraits and shadows contain part of a person’s soul influenced two of the greatest Gothic novels of the 19th century.

Read more in @coffinboffin.bsky.social ‘s piece for The Mirror Issue. Pre-order on helleborezine.com
Hellebore - cover of The Mirror Issue Sam George THE VAMPIRE'S LOST REFLECTION In 1890, Sir James Frazer recorded in The Golden Bough the belief across many cultures that reflections, portraits and shadows were thought to contain part of a person's soul. These folkloric notions influenced two of the greatest Gothic novels of the 19th century: Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Bram Stoker's Dracula, the most enduring of all fictional vampires, is a creature with virtually no representation: he doesn't have a reflection, his likeness cannot be painted, and he cannot be photographed. Some modern vampires do have a reflection, but Dracula's lack of representation makes him a profoundly unsettling figure. Linked with the realm of shadows, he remains the embodiment of an ancient evil who cannot be comprehended nor captured
September 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
lotnumber249.bsky.social
If #HammerHorror is your thing, then you might enjoy this talk Lauren and I are giving as part of our annual Halloween celebrations. 🦇

Tickets are available via our website www.issegyptomania.com/events
September 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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infestedpublishing.bsky.social
Check the comments to see what you get in this limited edition bundle. This @jvgachs.bsky.social collection releases October the 27th but you have a chance to grab it NOW! 🐁🖤🐀
www.infestedpublishing.com/product-page...
Sins of My Sisters Pre-order Bundle | INFESTED PUBLISHING
Enter the confessional with J.V Gach's horror collection, Sins of My Sisters. Fourteen visceral tales of love, loss, hauntings, and antifascist revolution. Haunting and unflinching, this collection p...
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September 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
lotnumber249.bsky.social
I had a short story published in the wonderful Blood Orange Zine this month and have another spookier tale coming out on a podcast next month. Happy Autumn! Working through redrafts this weekend and submitting submitting, submitting! #writing
September 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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emilybrand.bsky.social
🌟 OUT TODAY 🌟

Anthony Delaney's Queer Georgians: a MARVELLOUS, eye-opening new book on queer life & love in the Georgian era

Hugely recommend to all interested in the 18th/19th centuries, LGBT+ history, social history, British history & the history of love ❤️
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/quee... #books
September 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
Come join us and spread the word, please!

(Feel free to share with your networks elsewhere too!)
September 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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scarredforlife.bsky.social
North East weirdies, @bobfischer.bsky.social and I will be bringing our Folk Horror show to @arcstockton.bsky.social on Wednesday 10 September! Everything from The Owl Service to Enys Men, and all points in-between. Robes and goat masks optional.

Tickets: bit.ly/44Jh9EJ
August 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
lotnumber249.bsky.social
30 pages of script down. 60 to go. Absolute torture. Wouldn't have it any other way.

Tomorrow is a new day. Although it is technically now today... because somehow it is 1am again.

#WiP #writing #theatre #horror
August 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
lotnumber249.bsky.social
This weekend is all about locking myself away to get a massive chunk of my play done. The deadline approaches, rather too quickly.

#writing #theatre #WiP #horror
August 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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emilyoram.bsky.social
Cause of death: Pedro Pascal for Vanity Fair
A black and white photo of actor Pedro Pascal wearing a white tee and black leather pants, reclining on a bed covered in a white sheet. Pedro Pascal, a 50 year old Latino male with short dark hair is standing on a crumpled bed while wearing an oversized olive(?) sweater, no pants, grey boxers and black socks Pedro Pascal stood in front of a full length mirror facing towards the camera. He has his arms folded and his biceps are full and obvious under his white tee that has the sleeves rolled up. He’s wearing grey dress pants and you can see his ass which is bulging against the fabric, in the mirror behind him. Pedro Pascal sat slumped on a chair covered in a dusty rose coloured sheet, he has bare legs, maybe white boxers and a thick, full length military style coat on in olive green. He has a hand resting on his face and his eyes are closed.
June 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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craigwallwork.bsky.social
June 27th sees my fourth collection of stories released. THE SKIN WE FEEL
MOST COMFORTABLE IN is a blend of horror and traditional stories that I consider some of my best.

It’d mean the world if you could spread the word or even preorder:
£1.99 U.K. amzn.eu/d/ibfaJoh
$2.99 US: a.co/d/00cmHAt
Black and white book cover showing a girl in a pretty white dress missing her head. Where her head should be is the o in comfortable. The title of the book is The Skin We Feel Most Comfortable In. In pink lettering is the author’s name: Craig Wallwork. There’s a quote also in the cover from author Kealan Patrick Burke that says, One of the most impressive books I’ve read in years. Photo of author Kealan Patrick Burke: “Every now and again comes a collection that marks the arrival of a spectacular voice in horror fiction. THE SKIN WE FEEL MOST COMFORTABLE IN is such a collection. Like a nightmarish fusion of Poe, James Herbert, and Clive Barker, Craig Wallwork executes his stories with a ruthless, surgical precision, resulting in a veritable Grand Guignol of visceral delights that will truly get under your skin, and it'll do so with protracted glee. One of the most impressive books I've read in years." - Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of KIN and SOUR CANDY Photo of author Ross Jeffery: “The Skin We Feel Most Comfortable In showcases a writer at the very peak of their undeniable talent, who weaves story after story of inescapable and insidious horror. Wallwork has the uncanny ability to write stories that not only leave you horrified, moved and forever changed, but ultimately render you awed at his gift as a raconteur. This collection further cements Wallwork as one of the best short story writers of our times, a national treasure and a true master of the genre.” - Ross Jeffery, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Metamorphosis and The Devil’s Pocketbook Photo of author Catherine McCarthy: “From the Gothic to the grotesque, this collection taps into the psyche with a hammer and chisel, leaving the reader raw from the flailing. There's heart here too though, heart and dark humour.” - Catherine McCarthy, author of Mosaic and Death of a Clown.
May 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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cutfingers.bsky.social
Excerpt from the wonderful @g0blinegg.bsky.social
story, ‘John Barleycorn’.

THE CLEANSING POWER OF FIRE OUT NOW ❤️‍🔥
June 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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horrortree.com
Ongoing Submissions: GRADEside Middle Grade & Young Adult Horror via ‪@gravesidepress.bsky.social‬
horrortree.com/ongoing-subm...
Payment: 50% royalties
Theme: Short stories, novels, and novellas - Horror stories for younger readers (middle school to YA)
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
June 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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infestedpublishing.bsky.social
OUT NOW!!
Sing and rejoice, brothers and sisters! Your redemption is here. Let fire purge whatever ails you.
🐁☀️🐀
Grab it in comments.
Cover image for The Cleansing Power of Fire anthology. Featuring a goats head through a red filter. Image by Cutfingers. The full TOC for The Cleansing Power of Fire on a red background with a bowing skeleton.
June 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
lotnumber249.bsky.social
A very hot and sweaty weekend spent fanning myself constantly. Saw Pulp again which was magic. Didn't get much #writing done over the past few days. Only managed about 80 odd words this weekend but better than nowt.

Onwards to a more productive week!
Woman with red lipstick holding a fan
June 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
lotnumber249.bsky.social
Join us on 15 July at 7pm for an online session all about the language and scripts of #ancientegypt

Tickets £5 or free for members

www.eventbrite.com/e/of-signs-a...
Of Signs and Sounds. Intro to the Scripts and Languages of Ancient Egypt
Come and join us for an evening of hieroglyphs, cursive scripts, and ancient Egyptian languages
www.eventbrite.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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scarredforlife.bsky.social
CHILDREN AND DISUSED FRIDGES (1971): A classic PIF with a Cholmondley-Warner style voiceover telling us that, to a child, old fridges could be caravans, castles, and ships (to Indiana Jones, they were nuclear bomb shelters). Best practise is to get rid safely... "BEFORE IT KILLS A CHILD!"
June 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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johnjjohnston.bsky.social
On the anniversary of his birth, remembering with much love and respect, my dear friend and Egyptological mentor Professor Kenneth A Kitchen (1932-2025).
Professor Kitchen, smiling into the camera, in his Liverpool garden in 2008, standing next to the writer.
June 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
lotnumber249.bsky.social
Looking forward to sinking my teeth into this one by @verityholloway.bsky.social 🖤
verityholloway.bsky.social Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · Jun 3
Thank you so much to everyone who bought books to help cover her care. I'll be sending some more out as soon as I can.

I have some copies of Pseudotooth still looking for homes. All sales go towards these massive bills.

ko-fi.com/s/7292dd0671
Pseudotooth paperback (signed) - Verity Holloway's Ko-fi Shop
The debut novel from Verity Holloway, Pseudotooth is an adult take on ‘portal fantasy’, boldly tackling issues of trauma responses, social difference ...
ko-fi.com
June 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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verityholloway.bsky.social
I'm posting a batch of books tomorrow! Vet's bills have now gone over £2000, so... yeah.
verityholloway.bsky.social Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · Jun 3
Thank you so much to everyone who bought books to help cover her care. I'll be sending some more out as soon as I can.

I have some copies of Pseudotooth still looking for homes. All sales go towards these massive bills.

ko-fi.com/s/7292dd0671
Pseudotooth paperback (signed) - Verity Holloway's Ko-fi Shop
The debut novel from Verity Holloway, Pseudotooth is an adult take on ‘portal fantasy’, boldly tackling issues of trauma responses, social difference ...
ko-fi.com
June 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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groomb.bsky.social
The famous Viking attack on Lindisfarne took place #OTD in 793, regarded as the start of the Viking age in Britain. ‘Never before has such a terror appeared in Britain as we have just suffered from a pagan people,' wrote the scholar Alcuin.
June 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
lotnumber249.bsky.social
First fiction submission in a while boxed off. 3955 words that I'm very proud of. Mostly proud that I've started submitting again and am putting myself out there. A good feeling. 😌

Already started work on the next one and I'm feeling excited about the story!

#writing
June 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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leannareneehieber.bsky.social
Who wore it better, our book (featuring a 19th Century "ghost" photograph) versus Haute Couture.

High Fashion:
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...

A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts: www.kensingtonbooks.com/978080654158...
Haunted couture: dressing like a ghost has captured the zeitgeist
From Dior and Chloé to Australia’s runways, a spectre is haunting fashion. But is it a sign of resignation or rebellion?
www.theguardian.com
June 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM